Touch ground when it thunders

Tractor

1 point-non moving tractor
2p- working tractor
5p- tractor dealer
-5p= mis id'ing another piece of equipment as a tractor
10 bonus points!- animals humping
played much like "punch buggy" or pididel or bididel, only without the punching and kicking. We played the Driver all the way up to Paihia and he beat us soundly, 26 to 11.

I've been trying to post, but blogger seems to be hacked often here in NZ. I spent a couple of days in Auckland walking around, the museum, I hiked Rangitoto the volcano right off the coast. The good news is that NZ is an astoundingly beautiful country and Green, 98% green. The bad news is the reason it's so green is that it rains, all the time, all day long. Today being the first sunny day I've had since arriving. Yesterday I took a unimog (a giant offroad troop transport converted for tourists) all the way up 90 mile beach, on the beach to Cape Reinga, where the Pacific and the Tasman sea meet at the very top of the country. You can actually stand on the tip of the country and watch the two oceans collide in front of you. I've taken pictures but I'm sure it won't convey the power of that place. We also went sandboarding on the giant sand dunes. You hike to the top of a big old dune with a boogy board, then you lay down on it propped up on your elbows and hold onto the front corners, braking with your feet as you go like hell for the river at the bottom. Not as scary as the shovel races in Angel Fire. I'll tell you all about those when I have a connection I trust more.

I'm about to take a boat out around the Bay of Islands, then tonight I go back down to Auckland for 1 night heading south at 8 tomorrow morning. I've decided to not rent/but a car and instead I've signed up with the "Stray" bus. Unlike "Magic" and the "Kiwi Experience" the Stray bus seems to be filled with other people around my age. I haven't seen an American yet, but more on that later too.

posted by jts @ 1:49 PM